What do you grow in your garden? We have a few types of citrus trees (orange, lemon, and pomella) as well as apple and and olive. Today I put up 15 kilos of olives, and I can't get the smell out of my hands! Shalom, Janet

Lol Jar! It is the time of year to plant vegetables now but have been slow this year. Usually have tomatoes (everywhere) but last year I planted beans and gem squash (small round green squash) and they did very well. Still searching for the right type of beans - one day I will get the ones I am looking for.

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I usually grow green green beans, tomatoes, lettuce and courgettes in my (micro) vegetable plot, and have also grown onions, scallions, shallotts and chili peppers successfully.

I have thyme, rosemary, chives and parsley all the time, as well as bay laurel.

When it's in season my rhubarb does reasonably well, and this year we had a small crop of apples from the young apple tree, two peaches and a couple of plums. The raspberry bushes have started to thrive and the black and redcurrants do well until the birds eat the fruit. I grow strawerries in containters to try keep the snails at bay. The crop isn't much - (just a couple of berries a day during the summer season)

Right now, however, it's autumn. The vegetable plot is full of weeds, the bushes are in need of pruning, the fruit trees are looking pretty tired and the compost heap is looking pretty sorry for itself. (The words putrid mess spring to mind, though it's not (yet) reached the rotten stage)

Time to get the mud boots out again and roll up the sleeves, methinks.

This year we grew tomatoes, bell peppers, potatoes, zucchini, cabbage, carrots, radishes, corn, and mini pumpkins. Now it's time to clean out the dead vines and get ready for next year. I've got most of the seeds I want, figured I'd stock up while they were on sale. The orchard didn't do well this year but I have plans to fix that next year.

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All your veg plots sound splendid! I am proud of you all! Janet, I would love some of your olives,and some of Santana and Rayven's veg and fruit wouldn't go amiss.I do not have much room, and tend to only grow flowers and fruit trees. We have a few nice orchids, lots of bourgainvillae, two or three lychee trees and some mangos. We grow kumquats too. Oh and my pride(s) and joy(s): a firecracker vine, grown from a twig, which is covered in blossoms at CNY and a curry bush which also grew from a stick and is very useful in cooking. There is a bit of mint and rosemary and some struggling lavender. I wish I could get that to flower. <Sigh> it's not very impressive really, but most people here do not have a garden at all, so I am lucky.

Everyone says our garden is good but I'd say it isn't looked after particularly well. It's mostly lawn but also has a mixture of trees, shrubs, raspberry bushes and wild blackberries (thorns). I can't name most of the plants out there. It has a bit of a wild area too. A few weeds and an area left uncultivated is good for wildlife. Looking out at the garden now, it looks very friendly to wildlife

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to be honest there are some plants and shrubs too and a number of them are still in bloom including fuchsias, plumbago, cape daisies and even some lobelia plus others. Normally fuchsias can be in flower (just a few) through until the spring when they are sometimes pruned.

I really need to do some pruning and weeding, my jasmine is really huge and needs to be hacked back before it completely takes over.

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Due to water restrictions, my garden survives largely on "grey" water, from bath and laundry, so I must be careful about the brand and quantity of detergent I use. A shower of rain is a cleansing bonus.I'm growing peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini. In a back corner I planted melon vines which can scramble freely without interfering with other plants. Under the roses in my front garden I'm considering putting unusual vegies such as black kale and tomatillos.The prolonged dry spell has been cruel to plants such as azaleas and rhododendrons, but the Australian flowering shrubs, particularly correas, are thriving and provide food and shelter for the nectar-feeding birds.

During the summer - hollyhocks, iris, daisies and tiger lily (as you can tell, I am not one to do any garden work) Right now, though, only snow and the odd frozen bits of things I didn't clean up well enough.

I'm not likely to have problems with deer but I did read in a craft forum I belong to about people who had deer eating their gardens .. I will send you the link to it but just for the 'ewww' value of the Fters one of the suggestions was to get the man of the house to go and start marking his territory!

Quote: I usually grow things that the deer end up eating. Aside from a higher fence, which I can't afford, any suggestions on how to keep them out?

My brother, who lives on Vancouver Island, uses and swears by the following method. He takes a bar or three of Irish Spring hand soap, cuts them into fairly good size slivers, puts each sliver into an old onion bag (old pantihose works as well) and hangs the bags around the perimeter of his garden. It works for him! Not sure why, but it must be Irish Spring soap, no other works.

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Potatoes, carrots, leeks, various lettuces, onions. shallots, cauliflower,peas, strawberries, blueberries. Oddly enough, no one likes tomatoes, so I don't bother with them.I also have a large selection of herbs.

I'm not going to list all the non-edibles, it would take far too long. The Weald of Sussex is a good place for growing things, the downside is that the slugs round here are the size of anacondas.

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